TEBIAS. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
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bearing in tominia two sharp points, whilst in tilaha (gradients) it is rounded off laterally. Quite a series 
of local forms are already known and a large number may still be looked for from the small islands near 
Celebes. — mangolina subsp. nov. (73 h) has the border at the hindmargin of the forewing only somewhat 
narrower, whilst the $ only differs from tominia in having less yellow on the hindwing. Sula Mangold - 
besina subsp. nov. is a much smaller melanotic island race, with still more rounded wings and even more dar¬ 
kened in the $. Sula Besi. — talissa Westw. only differs slightly from tominia in the female, the <$<$, 
however, bear a much broader and more obliquely placed band. Island of Talisse, off the north point of 
Celebes. — tominia Vollenh. has its name from the Gulf of Tomini in North-East Celebes, where, as well 
as in Minahassa and southwards to Toli-Toli, it is not rare, and was observed by me at the edges of the 
woods near the coast. The are apparently very constant, $$ of the rainy-season form very large, 
with the yellowish band on the forewing sometimes very much narrowed. $$ of the dry-season form as 
they occur in Central Celebes and in the south of the island, essentially smaller, with the yellow oblique 
band only slightly dusted over with black. -— In South Celebes occurs a further distinctly defined moun¬ 
tain form: battana subsp. nov. (73 g), which is noticeable for the considerable reduction of all the black 
marginal bands and the predominance of the yellow ground-colour without black dusting. Peak of Bont- 
hain, February, March, not rare at about 5000 ft. —- toradja subsp. nov. is an intermediate form, in which 
the yellow oblique bands of the forewing are almost entirely suppressed by the black distal margin and the 
yellow band of the 3$ is much more obliquely placed. East Celebes. Named from the Toradja, the 
natives of the island. — halesa subsp. nov., from Saleyer, may be recognised by a black anal border 
extending to beyond the middle of the cell of the forewing and a shorter yellow oblique band. — faunia 
subsp. nov., from Binungka, approaches besina in its smallness and in the very narrow distal border of 
both wings, but has a paler ground-colour than all other named subspecies. — Finally, arsia nom. nov. 
(= snelleni Fruhst.), from Tanah-Djampea, again approaches battana, from which it differs by the black 
anal border encroaching more deeply on the cell. — horatia subsp. nov. (73 g) apparently replaces tominia 
on Borneo. This is one of the rare cases where Borneo and Celebes have a species of butterfly in com¬ 
mon. Butler believed that he had identified horatia with rabel F., a conclusion which cannot be 
justified from the inadequate diagnosis of Fabricius. Pontianak, South Borneo. 
T. alitha Fldr. approximates to the figured marosiana and is easy to separate from the tominia- 
series by the elongated, narrow wings. According to Sempfr the remain very constant, whilst the 
$$ are somewhat variable in the breadth of the distal border and also in the intensity of the ground¬ 
colouring. Observations as to seasonal forms have not yet been made. Sempfr figures a $ almost 
entirely black above. -— As bazilana subsp. nov. we introduce here an island race with very broad distal 
margin to both wings, proximally very sharply defined. The anal border of the hindwing reaches nearly 
to the cell. Together with it occurs a form of the <$ with the terminal band of the hindwing much 
narrowed anally and ending in a fine point at the submedian (f. aebutia form. nov.). Bazilan. — As 
sangira subsp. nov. I characterise a race in which the^ yellow oblique band of the forewing is reduced to 
half the width of that of bazilana and the hindwing shows a basal black tinge as extended as in zita Fldr. 
(73 h). Sangir. — lorquini Fldr., from North Qolehes, of which I have been able to compare the type, remained 
unknown to me in the field. The <$$ are smaller than those of marosiana subsp. nov. (73 g), whose $$ have 
the upper surface of the wings finely dusted with grey-brown. — In djampeana Fruhst. the black distal 
border of the forewing enters the cell and also the hindwing is more broadly margined with black. Tanah 
Djampea. 
T. zita Fldr. (73 h) so closely resembles lorquini in the male that we leave the question open 
whether they do not represent respectively the rainy-season and dry-season forms of a single species. 
The shape of the wings and the different scheme of marking in the $$ are, however, very distinctive. 
On the island of Lutangan, near Toli-Toli I took a $ with the forewing entirely black and a remarkable 
dwarf form with yellow transverse bands, but almost entirely covered by black dusting, on both wings 
(zamida Fruhst.), which appears to form a transition to lorquini Fldr. 
mangolina. 
besina. 
talissa. 
tominia. 
battana. 
toradja. 
halesa. 
faunia. 
arsia. 
horatia. 
alitha. 
bazilana. 
aebutia. 
sangira. 
lorquini. 
marosiana. 
djampeana. 
zita. 
zamida. 
T. norbana Fruhst. (73 h) is noticeable for the sharply dentate bordering of the wings, which on the norbana. 
hindwing is proximally broken up into fine atoms. The species is very common at the borders of the 
woods at the coast of Toli-Toli, North Celebes. The $ only differs slightly from the in having the cell 
of the forewing lightly dusted with red-brown. — odinia Fruhst. (73 h) is a local form from southern odinia. 
Celebes, of larger size, but nevertheless with less and much lighter brown margining, in the $$ of which 
the distal border of the hindwing begins to be broken up into spots already behind the middle of the 
wing, moreover on the forewing there is no dusting of the grey-brown scales, odinia occurs from the plain 
up to 5000 ft., from November to March. — salegos subsp. nov. is but a little more narrowly margined salegos. 
with black on the forewing than norbana, but the hindwing bears only a slight distal border, which is 
sharply defined proximally. Northern Moluccas: Halmaheira, Batjan. •— In anios subsp. nov. the distal anios. 
border is again somewhat widened and has on the hindwing distinct undulate excisions. Obi. — In 
depicta subsp. nov. the bordering of the forewing at the hindmargin scarcely reaches to the middle of the depinta. 
